> > Is this a bug or a well-considered feature?
>
> Apparently groff treats a space differently from "real" characters
> (like in TeX, where a space in the input represents glue in the
> output, not a printable character).
I consider it a bug. There is no technical reason to disallow a space
there.
> By the way, using \N'32' (usually the space character) as the
> repetition character works correctly with the ascii device
Not really. With -Tascii you get
warning: can't find numbered character 32
> but not the postscript device, apparently because groff/grops treats
> the remaining space put at the beginning of the repeated characters
> (see the Troff User's Manual) as a "stretched" space using the
> widthshow operator, then unfortunately also stretching the line
> repetition space as well, so that the second word gets shifted to
> well beyond the line length.
It's a bug in grops, handling the `space' glyph incorrectly.
I don't know yet when I have time to investigate those two problems.
Werner
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